Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean Tenement House Dept. of the Cit – Historic Poster Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean Tenement House Dept. of the Cit comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Help your neighborhood by keeping your premises clean Tenement House Dept. of the Cit
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Among the civic posters of the Depression years, this one speaks directly to tenants, asking New Yorkers living in multifamily buildings to keep their own premises clean. It was issued in the name of the New York City Tenement House Department, the agency that oversaw conditions in the city's tenements, and it reflects an era when sanitation and building upkeep were pressing public concerns. The Federal Art Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, sponsored the work, and its poster program used silkscreen to produce inexpensive public messages in bold color. A date stamped on the back, April 16, 1937, records when the poster was processed or circulated.
| Created / published | 1936 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print on board (poster) : silkscreen color. |
| Notes | Date stamped on verso: Apr 16 1937. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). · Federal Art Project sponsor. |
| Subjects | New York (N.Y.). Tenement House Dept.--1930-1940. Tenement houses--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Cleaning--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. Sanitation--New York (State)--New York--1930-1940. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Work Projects Administration Poster Collection |
| Original scan | 2,760 × 4,096 px · prints to 9 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 367_Help_your_neighborhood_1936 |
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